• @WrenFeathers
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    753 minutes ago

    How long before windows make it to the statistics of average deaths per-year in Russia?

  • @GreenKnight23
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    164 hours ago

    In another article emergency services responded with this gem.

    He died a natural death. It’s not a crime.

    should we be worried

    • @iAvicenna
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      240 minutes ago

      cause of death: the natural impact of cement on the body experienced after a perfectly natural fall

  • @[email protected]
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    As far as I read, he had a leg spinal injury and an operation scheduled (bad stuff for a ballet dancer - you can’t work with an injured leg spine) and was experiencing difficulties with alcohol and painkillers (the latter for the injury). He might have felt that his career was doomed.

    As far as I read, he called his girlfriend (or maybe ex-wife, as the article suggests) and asked her to visit him. When she arrived, he had already fallen.

    He was characterized as optimistic and nobody had noticed a death wish. Then again, during injury, pain, inability to work, (self-)medication and maybe withdrawal symptoms, other people’s predictions of character may not entirely apply to every person.

    The balcony was described as not the safest place on Earth. It doesn’t require a detective to suspect that being under the influence of strong painkillers might increase the risk.

    He can’t be characterized as an opposition figure, or a figure of power. There is no clear beneficiary or motive.

    As for war and statements against it - he was an artist, a dancer in a publicly funded theatre, and limited by that in what he could say without losing his job. Since it seems that he had reasonable political opinions, inability to voice them without experiencing retribution probably didn’t make him cheerful.

  • MushuChupacabra
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    Ballet stars, and their notoriously poor balance.

    • @Maggoty
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      You’re just blessed enough not to recognize gallows humor. We’re actually jealous of you.

    • @GreenKnight23
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      make sure you check your railings in America before January.

      Everyone else is stocking up on food and drugs.

      I’m stocking up on steel railings and evacuation air pads.

    • @[email protected]
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      Unfortunately anti-russian racism is acceptable here. When you see a headline like this, just be ready for the comments.

      • @WrenFeathers
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        354 minutes ago

        Do you seriously think Russian is a race?

      • @karobeccary
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        705 hours ago

        Gallows humor about the suspicious deaths of people critical of an oligarchy is not racism.

        Unless you are a wilfully credulous root vegetable of a person.

      • Lightor
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        204 hours ago

        What exactly was racist?

      • capital
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        Pro-Russian comment meant to wield the left’s propensity to over-diagnose racism to redirect and distract.

      • @EtherWhack
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        I’d more call it politicism, as it’s more criticizing the political state and not someones origin/heritage.

  • @[email protected]
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    A nice window to the future for US citizens critical of their government… a window ripe for defenestration…

    If I die mysteriously from a fall, please refer to this comment.

  • @cyd
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    527 hours ago

    I imagine Russia is like the Star Wars setting, lots of crazy steep drops and they never install railings.

    • @FourPacketsOfPeanuts
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      The platform where Darth Vader confronts Luke has railings, so they clearly have the parts, tools, and a guy who installs them. Maybe he’s just held up on Level B?

      • @reinei
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        75 hours ago

        Or maybe they literally one have that one guy/gal installing the railings throughout the entire Republic‽

        • lad
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          I hope ey finished the job on the Death Star and didn’t explode with it. Cause then it would be zero people installing railings afterwards

          • @WindyRebel
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            They are a contractor. They was obviously on a different job starting that before they came back to the Death Star.

  • Flying SquidM
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    13710 hours ago

    Stay on the ground floor, Russians.

    • @[email protected]
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      74 hours ago

      “Tragically fell from the ground floor balcony and landed on two bullets to the back of the head.”

      • @ATDA
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        So do poisonings, and shootings but we’re just mitigating circumstances here lol.

  • @[email protected]
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    10710 hours ago

    They don’t have any budget to do it differently or it’s a power move, like, it’s not official but you know it?

    • @Maggoty
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      54 hours ago

      Power move. That and shooting yourself, in the back, multiple times.

    • @Kyrgizion
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      It’s a calling card. Everyone knows what happened, not a single soul will comment on it. Unless they fancy being the next up for flight lessons.